The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected himself in forty-nine years practice: or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Together with ... remedies / [Thomas Dover].

  • Dover, Thomas, 1660-1742
Date:
1732
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected himself in forty-nine years practice: or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Together with ... remedies / [Thomas Dover]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    169/176 (page 153)
    but at that Time I again began taking it aa Ounce /fr Day^ and hath hitherto con- tinned it with very few Intermiffions: The Confequence of which is, that from the firft Time of taking it, to this Inftailt, I never had any. violent Fit; and during all the laft Winter I have not been confined other- wife than through Precaution, to avoid the Inclemencies of very bad Weather, or upon flight Attacks, when Reft is always preferable to any the leaft Motion. My Complaints, though very greatly dimi- “ nilhed, I cannot fay are abfolutely re- moved 3 I have had frequent Symptoms threatening me, and efpecially this Spring; the Variabieneis of the Weather being always a great Enemy to me. But hap- py in a high Degree is my prefent Gon- dition, when compared with my former. To you I am indebted for this Happinefs; and I lhall be always ready to make fuch “ Acknowledgments of it, as the moft grate- ful Senfe can infpire. If